T1D Index estimates for 2025 · IDF Africa region · Low-Income country
An estimated 1,546 people are living with type 1 diabetes in Mali in 2025. Each year about 277 people are newly diagnosed and 166 people with T1D die. A further 2,191 people would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes.
People living with T1D
1,546
New diagnoses this year
277
Deaths this year
166
Missing people
2,191
Expected age at death, diagnosed at 10
24.9years
How many people have type 1 diabetes in Mali?
1,546 people in Mali are living with type 1 diabetes in 2025, or 6.1 per 100,000 people. That is lower than the Africa average of 29.7 per 100,000 and lower than the global average of 115.5. Mali has the 142nd-largest number of people living with T1D of the 202 countries in the T1D Index, and the 27th-largest of the 49 countries in the IDF Africa region.
For every 100 people living with T1D in Mali, another 142 are missing: people who would be alive today had they not died early from T1D.
Is type 1 diabetes increasing in Mali?
The number of people living with T1D in Mali went from 44 in 2000 to 1,546 in 2025, and is projected to rise to 3,867 by 2040 (+150%).
People living with type 1 diabetes in Mali, 2000–2040. Solid line: modelled estimates to 2025; dashed line: projection to 2040.
Type 1 diabetes in Mali over time, all ages
Year
Living with T1D
New diagnoses
Deaths
Missing people
2000
44
18
28
358
2010
210
72
52
634
2020
996
208
134
1,500
2025
1,546
277
166
2,191
2030 (projected)
2,261
386
229
3,076
2040 (projected)
3,867
502
346
5,625
What is the life expectancy with type 1 diabetes in Mali?
A 10-year-old diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Mali today is expected to live to 24.9, compared with 67.6 for a 10-year-old without T1D: 42.7 years of life lost. Counting years lived with complications as well, T1D costs 44.9 years of healthy life at today's level of care. If everyone received timely diagnosis, insulin and test strips, and insulin pumps and CGMs, that loss would fall to 15.5 years.
Healthy years of life for a 10-year-old diagnosed with T1D in Mali, as each level of care is added in turn
Level of care
Healthy years restored
Healthy years of life
Healthy years still lost
Current level of care
–
22.7
44.9
+ Timely diagnosis for everyone
+4.2
26.9
40.7
+ Insulin and test strips for everyone
+17.9
44.8
22.8
+ Insulin pumps and CGMs for everyone
+7.3
52.1
15.5
How does Mali compare?
Type 1 diabetes in Mali compared with the Africa region and the world, 2025
2025
Mali
Africa
World
People living with T1D per 100,000
6.1
29.7
115.5
New diagnoses per 100,000
1.1
4.0
6.2
Missing people per 100 living with T1D
141.7
160.4
43.0
Expected age at death, 10-year-old with T1D
24.9
24.4
51.3
Expected age at death, 10-year-old in general population
All figures are T1D Index version 3.0 estimates for all ages. Missing people are those who would be alive today had they not died early from type 1 diabetes. Expected age at death is for a 10-year-old. See Data & Methods for how the estimates are made and the peer-reviewed publications behind them.
